OK, this is officially one of the coolest and oddest things I've run across in quite some time:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/27/edge-of-minecraft_n_4676047.htm\ l <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/27/edge-of-minecraft_n_4676047.ht\ ml> A guy named Kurt J. Mac has been doing a "walk for charity" for the last three years, and raising a shitload of money for a cool group called Child's Play in the process. And he's not just walking, he's *exploring*, traversing never-before-seen and uncharted territory, and blogging about it (complete with visuals) on a YouTube channel that now has over 300,000 subscribers. His goal is to walk to the edge of the known universe. So far he's only walked 700 kilometers, and math nerds have calculated that at his current pace, it'll take him 22 years to get to his destination, but this doesn't bother him because for him the journey is more important than the arriving. I can identify; the frontispiece for Road Trip Mind was this quote from Lao-tzu: A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving And the cool thing is that all of this is virtual. The end of the universe that Kurt is trying to reach is called the Far Lands, and it exists -- if, in fact it exists at all -- inside a computer game called Minecraft. Read the article. This man's journey is a virtual throwback to the days of intrepid adventurers walking the earth, like Caine in Kung-fu, only in cyberspace. Yes, it's folly. But it's "controlled folly," in the Castanedan sense, and the payoff from his YouTube blog has enabled him to quit his day job and continue exploring full-time. Go figure. I mean, really...go figure. Le monde est fou, fou, fou...mais merveilleux.
